State Police: More sex offenders are declaring homelessness to avoid registration

Last year, we reported about a Michigan Court of Appeals decision in People v Dowdy, in which the court held that homeless sex offenders didn’t have to register under SORA because they had no “domicile.” Since the decision, the Michigan State Police has found that some sex offenders have used the case as a ...

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I don’t have anything against men, in fact I’m married but I do think that all men who work with kids should be given penile plethysmograph tests to make sure that they are not attracted to children.

Mothers, please remember the over 90 percent of child molestation is done by a dad, a brother, an uncle or a grandfather. Family friends should always be monitored closely as well. Never and I mean ever leave their kids in the care of any male.

I think that is a brilliant adjustment to a very frustrating loophole. I mean just because you don’t have a ‘permanent’ address doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have to register! In this day and age, how ‘permanent’ are most people’s addresses? Make them register where they can be FOUND, and make sure that they ARE FOUND there on a regular basis. That’s the point of the law, isn’t it?

And as an aside- @ Linda – are you SERIOUS about this comment, “Never and I mean ever leave their kids in the care of any male.” and this: “I do think that all men who work with kids should be given penile plethysmograph tests to make sure that they are not attracted to children.” ???

My nephew was almost molested by a very close family friend and I was very frustrated with the lack of harsher penalties imposed upon him (since it was clear that my nephew dodged a bullet while other little boys hadn’t been so lucky). But still, with that said, I think your suggestions are way overboard and the first one seems a sure fire way to raise a seriously paranoid kid. But that’s just my $.02

At the end of the day, these guys need to be TRACKED CLOSELY. No loopholes allowed.

Well, of course they are finding a loophole… they are criminals. Criminals learn more in prison about being better criminals than they do outside of one. It’s like the tax payers are sending them for a full university education on criminology… the inside track!

Perhaps it’s a bit Orwellian, which is something I’m usually opposed to, but more effective than the proposed solution (I think)… convicted offenders should have a tracking chip or something, that way it won’t matter where they live… authorities will know where they are, except the ones clever enough to figure out a way to disable it.

And as far as Linda’s comment above… men are not the only offenders. There are statistically less women as far as anyone knows, but they are not ALL men.